Brian Bradley

a canoe on the lake at sunset with a Black Spruce in the left of the frame

The skies are so smoky here right now there is no blue to be seen! So into the archives I go for #BlueSkyMonday. #Photography #EastCoastKin #Ontario

What I learned today: the cost to insure two cars, house and boat on a waterfront property in rural Lakehurst, Ont. is the same as insuring one car for a driver who lives in north Mississauga, Ont.

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I didn’t grow up in the wild, but I was raised by a family who used margarine containers as Tupperware.

What a headline www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Edward Keenan: Corporate naming is taking over. Welcome to Toronto, brought to you by Rogers It's hard to tell one venue from the next when they're all named for the same handful of companies.

"Citizens are not obligated to call these venues by their corporate advertisers’ names. No one is paying us to rewrite our map of civic memories."

Column on the corporatization of culture by @thekeenanwire.bsky.social: www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

This cover is everything.

$324 is the cheapest ticket to see Paul McCartney in Hamilton at a small arena. Hey Jude, take a sad song and make this better...

Today’s air quality: a Bingo hall in the 1980s.

Used to work for LPQ. What a downfall.

Thanks to an anonymous donation everyone can visit The Art Gallery of Hamilton for free all summer. 🌞🖼️♥️ #HamiltonStrong 👊

This Pride Month, the stakes are clear | Xtra Magazine OPINION: An encampment eviction has exposed a divide in Toronto's queer community. The problem is deeper than it seems

The incident at Barbara Hall Park prompts the question propelling our current social moment: Who needs to get out of the way so the rest of us can enjoy the luxury of pretending that everything is all right?

Code Name: Pale Horse: Scott Payne with Michelle Shephard - TIFA Scott Payne risked everything to take down America’s most dangerous white supremacist groups, living undercover as “Pale Horse” inside The Base—a violent neo-Nazi network. A decorated agent dubbed the...

If you’re in Toronto, and a fan of our book “Code Name: Pale Horse,” or the CBC podcast series, White Hot Hate, please join us Saturday! Scott will be in town for the MOTIVE festival. The lovely @debdundas.bsky.social will be our moderator.

Passes 👇🏻

festivalofauthors.ca/event/code-n...

What a time to be alive.

Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 244: Fred Penner In this 244th episode, Mike chats with Fred Penner about The Cat Came Back, Fred Penner's Place, Tipi Tales, Hear the Music and more. This episode is exactly 45:03. You can listen to this episode in a...

On this day in 2017, Fred Penner made his Toronto Mike'd debut. We talked about The Cat Came Back, Fred Penner's Place, Tipi Tales, Hear the Music and more.
www.torontomike.com/2017/06/toro...

“Now is the time for peace” is a helluva thing to say after bombing a country.

Students walk out after Toronto high school places stickers over yearbook picture of girls wearing keffiyehs Senior yearbook at Ursula Franklin Academy is altered, first explained as a “misprint.” TDSB eventually said the photos shouldn’t have been covered.

www.thestar.com/news/gta/stu... “When you’re going to a social justice school, with one of its core values being democracy and another being social justice itself, you cannot hide and shy away from politics. It’s just not something that I was ever taught to let slide.”

Jim Egan was an early LGBTQ activist before he gave it up to be with the man he loved.
Years later, he was thrust back in the spotlight over the issue of spousal benefits for same-sex couples.
His court case changed Canadian history.
This is his story.

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Sounds like Trump’s parade could have been an email.

I once embraced the Zionist dream. Now I’m protesting the genocide in Gaza on the streets of Toronto My adolescent dream of a Jewish state committed to justice and equality has died a slow death.

I once embraced the Zionist dream. Now I’m protesting the genocide in Gaza on the streets of Toronto

A Sunday #opinion from Michele Landsberg

Harbour with Sailboat and Seagulls
Maud Lewis
c. 1960

This framing is just malpractice from what was very recently one of the two greatest papers in America

A Democratic Mayor arrested.

A Democratic Congresswoman indicted.

A Democratic Senator tackled and detained.

A Democratic State Representative killed.

A Democratic State Representative in critical condition.

We can all see where this is going.

These four leaders took Toronto through COVID-19. You think you know their stories. You have no idea John Tory, Joe Cressy, Eileen de Villa and Matthew Pegg gave they everything they had to keep Toronto safe during the pandemic. This is what lost, and the surprising thing each of them gained

These four leaders took Toronto through COVID-19. You think you know their stories. You have no idea www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Judge says Trump acted illegally in dispatching National Guard in California The state claimed the president improperly deployed the Guard and Marines to Los Angeles without the governor’s consent or input amid immigration protests.

Breaking news: A federal judge agreed to block the Trump administration from deploying the California National Guard, granting a request by Gov. Gavin Newsom and saying the president acted illegally in dispatching the troops amid immigration protests.

That is a fitting Newsweek story?

"Bluesky is an echo chamber so I'm going back to X" is the dumbest thing on the internet this week, and that's really saying something.

Toronto Mike'd Podcast Episode 862: Brian Bradley 🌈 In this 862nd episode, Mike chats with Brian Bradley about the history, courage, and diversity of the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Toronto with a keen focus on Craig Russell and Lori Russell Eadie. This epis...

On this day in 2021, @brianjbradley.bsky.social made his Toronto Mike'd debut. We talked about the history, courage, and diversity of the 2SLGBTQ+ community in Toronto with a keen focus on Craig Russell and Lori Russell Eadie.

www.torontomike.com/2021/06/toro...

Canada Post's new Places of Pride stamp series honours sites across Canada that 2SLGBTQIA+ people fought to make their own. Included is a stamp honouring Montreal's gay bar Truxx, site of a notorious police raid in 1977, which @helloiamben.bsky.social powerfully writes about in I Remember Lights. 🏳️‍🌈

Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’ Exclusive: Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body

Breakthrough in search for #HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed.’ Melbourne team demonstrates way to make the virus visible within white blood cells, paving the way to fully clear it from the body, by @katlay.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/global-devel... via @theguardian.com #AIDS